Postpone vs Setback - What's the difference?
postpone | setback |
To delay or put off an event, appointment etc.
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, title= An obstacle, delay, or disadvantage.
(US) The required distance between a structure and a road.
(architecture) A step-like recession in a wall.
(possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.
As a verb postpone
is to delay or put off an event, appointment etc.As a noun setback is
an obstacle, delay, or disadvantage.postpone
English
Verb
(postpon)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”}}
Synonyms
* adjourn, defer, delay, forestay, procrastinate, put off, put on ice, stay, suspendAntonyms
* advance * hasten * prepone (India )setback
English
Noun
(en noun)- After some initial setbacks , the expedition went safely on its way.
- Setbacks were initially used for structural reasons, but now are often mandated by land use codes.